Probability and Statistics

CH3 Problem 50
The mean income of a group of sample observations is $500; the standard deviation is $40. According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600?

CH3 Problem 62
The Citizens Banking Company is studying the number of times the ATM located in a Loblaws Supermarket at the foot of Market Street is used per day. Following are the numbers of times the machine was used over each of the last 30 days. Determine the mean number of times the machine was used per day.
83 64 84 76 84 54 75 59 70 61
63 80 84 73 68 52 65 90 52 77
95 36 78 61 59 84 95 47 87 60

CH5 Problem 28
Three defective electric toothbrushes were accidentally shipped to a drugstore by Cleanbrush Products along with 17 nondefective ones. What is the probability the first two electric toothbrushes sold will be returned to the drugstore because they are defective?

CH5 problem 78
The state of Maryland has license plates with three numbers followed by three letters. How many different license plates are possible?

CH7 problem 20
The mean starting salary for college graduates in the spring of 2004 was $36,280. Assume that the distribution of starting salaries follows the normal distribution with a standard deviation of $3,300. What percent of the graduates have starting salaries:

a. Between $35,000 and $40,000?
b. More than $45,000?
c. Between $40,000 and $45,000?

CH7 problem 40
It is estimated that 10 percent of those taking the quantitative methods portion of the CPA examination fail that section. Sixty students are taking the exam this Saturday.

a. How many would you expect to fail? What is the standard deviation?
b. What is the probability that exactly two students will fail?
c. What is the probability at least two students will fail?

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CH3 Problem 50
The mean income of a group of sample observations is $500; the standard deviation is $40. According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600?

This theorem says that:
For any population or sample, at least (1 - (1 / k)2) of the observations in the data set fall within k standard deviations of the mean, where k &#61619; 1.
Here, we want to know what percentage of the incomes will fall within $100 of the mean. Put this in terms of a multiple of standard deviations (i.e. find k):

100 = 40k
k = 100/40 = 2.5

Now, we know that we are interested in the percent of incomes that fall within 2.5 standard deviations of the mean. Use the theorem to solve for the percent of incomes in this range:

(1 - (1 / k)2) = (1 - (1 / 2.5)2) = (1 - (0.4)2) = (1 - 0.16) = 0.84

At least 84% of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600.

CH3 Problem 62
The Citizens Banking Company is studying the number of times the ATM located in a Loblaws Supermarket at the foot of Market Street is used per day. Following are the numbers of times the machine was used over each of the last 30 days. Determine the mean number of times the machine was used per day.

83 64 84 76 84 54 75 59 70 61
63 80 84 73 68 52 65 90 ...

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